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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Hamer, from Old English hamor ‘rock’, ‘crag’.
  • English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a smith or for a maker or seller of hammers, Middle English hamer (Old English hamor), or a habitational name for someone living at an inn or shop distinguished by the sign of a hammer.
  • Dutch : from hamer ‘hammer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hammers or a user of a hammer, for example a blacksmith.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German : variant spelling of Hammer.
  • Slovenian : variant spelling of German Hammer.

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